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Product G4 “A review of the ways of overcoming the inconsistencies between targets and appraisal” Partly looking at the political and practical issues around appraisal Looking at the possible conflicts between appraisal/VfM and policy making and how these might be resolved

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Looking for examples Where LAs have had problems: A proposal with a good “policy fit” has not scored well under appraisal/VfM How to resolve this What about achieving LTP targets? Are there inconsistencies with appraisal criteria? Integrated Transport Block v Majors? Is this a growing problem? Many of the environmental impacts are becoming more important Policy concerns v. the “values” used in appraisal?

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A national example? UK Government Target: 60% reduction in emissions of CO 2 by 2050 “Values” of carbon for use in appraisal published – based upon marginal damage estimates